Genre: Romance, Drama, Coming Of Age
Plot: Arthur Golden's blockbuster bestseller, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, has been brilliantly brought to the big screen by Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The film opens in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929, where two sisters, Chiyo and Satsu, are sold by their troubled father to people who place Chiyo in a classy geisha house known as an okiya in Gion and Satsu in a much more vulgar and dangerous district. Chiyo becomes a maid to Hatsumomo, a cold, controlling, and calculating geisha who is instantly jealous of Chiyo's unusual, beautiful eyes and childish innocence. Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin, another maid at the okiya, but the two are soon driven apart. Chiyo is shown compassion by the Chairman and another, more successful geisha, Mameha, who takes her under her wing as her "little sister," furthering the battle between Chiyo, now called Sayuri, and Hatsumomo. As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha, learning how to walk, talk, dance, and serve (up to a point) in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients, World War II looms on the horizon, threatening to upend Japan and its old ways.MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is a lush, sweeping historical and romantic epic, featuring gorgeous period costumes, primarily the exquisite kimono worn by the
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 Memoirs of a Geisha is worthwhile on many levels, although it lacks the depth of feeling that would have elevated it from a good movie to a romance for the ages.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Memoirs of a Geisha" is a big, hollow piece of Hollywood entertainment with the pretty sights of a foreign world seen through Western eyes. It's a popcorn picture served up like a main course. B+,C--Robin and Laura Clifford
Aside from all its other faults, this flick feels about as authentically Asian as a dish of chop suey followed by a fortune cookie, either of which would nonetheless be more engaging than MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Ultimately Marshall’s movie is rather unmemorable. It is hard to grasp fully the sense of sacrifice and suffering these female characters endure; though the sense of ridicule, particularly when portraying the characters as children...  --Douglas Strassler (Tailslate.net)
... “Memoirs of a Geisha” comes across as mostly inert and emotionally tepid. It’s like a meal that’s attractively displayed on the plate but proves bland to the taste and not terribly filling. C---Frank Swietek
It's not what I was hoping for, but it could have been worse than what I expected, which wasn't much in the first place. From that point of view, Memoirs of a Geisha amounts to no more than a trifle. 4/10--Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
As for me I really did enjoy it. The book was better but isn’t it always. A--Alexis Tuminello (TheCinemaSource)
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| Cast |
Ziyi Zhang
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers |
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 | Randall Duk Kim
The Matrix Reloaded, The Replacement Killers, Anna and the King |
 | Ted Levine
The Silence of the Lambs, Heat, The Fast and the Furious |
 | Michelle Yeoh
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies, Huo Yuan Jia |
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John Williams
Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Schindler's List |
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“Geisha” is a cold moviegoing experience, which is not a bad thing in itself, but to attempt more so late in the game is asking too much of this stoic motion picture.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
...Memoirs of a Geisha is a visually stunning movie, blessed with outstanding performances, but a movie that ultimately leaves you feeling cold and empty. 6.5/10--Brendan Cullin (EmpireMovies.com)
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